When Angel arrived at the Signal Tower, the outside was still bathed in orange afterglow. By the time he came out, the Goddess of Night had already drawn up her curtain of darkness.
The bright moonlight burned a hole through that curtain, spilling its radiance over countless trees and vines as though dusting them with a faint trace of snow.
Angel walked onward through this "snow."
Yet he was not alone. Besides the lingering evening breeze, Wood Spirit and Dangros were traveling with him as well.
Wood Spirit was hidden deep inside his pocket, not even daring to poke its head out. Dangros, on the other hand, stood on two fingers atop Angel's left shoulder, gazing spiritedly at Bilen Tree Court beneath the night sky.
"Are we going to find Olao?" Seeing Angel head toward the crowded Clan Assembly Tree, Dangros asked curiously in a low voice.
"No need. Once Olao picks her up, he'll come back on his own."
Dangros said, "Then where are we going now? Back to wait for Olao?"
Angel passed through the Clan Assembly Tree and followed Bilen Tree Court's main street all the way to the commercial district with the worst light pollution. Only then did he say to Dangros, "Let's browse around here first and see whether there are any suitable materials."
The materials, naturally, were for the hat he would be crafting for Dong Liz. Although Galatea had not specified the hat's dimensions or properties, since he had agreed to make it, he did not want to do a slapdash job.
After all, it would bear his own alchemical insignia.
The moment Dangros heard that they would be lingering outside, it immediately wilted. Its mind was still on the protagonist of Strange Fire Alchemist and how he would subdue the legendary Azure